TLR B&W Split Toning ACR Presets
Submitted by mitch on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 00:45.
Duotones, tritones, and quadtones use spot color inks and multiple passes on a printer. They are expensive to produce because of the separate plates and press washes. Photoshop has a duotone mode. Printing these images on an inkjet printer results in a pseudo-duotone. These can be very lovely images and nearly indistinguishable from a true duo/tri/quadtone.
If all you want to do is produce a toned B&W print, there is no need to use Photoshop to convert your image to Duotone mode. You can use the TLR B&W Split Toning ACR Presets instead and give your RAW files a fine art tone.
Below is a sample photograph before and after application of the Burgundy Gold preset.
This collection of Lightroom presets is designed to simulate the same effect obtained with the TLR B&W Toning actions for Photoshop and the TLR B&W Split Toning Lightoom Presets.
Basic Tones
The presets for basic tones apply a moderate color tone to the phortograph. You can choose from Blue, Brown, Burgundy, Cyan, Green, magenta, Mauve, Purple, Red, or Yellow.
Sepia Tones
The presets for sepia tones apply a light to moderate sepia tone to the image.
Color Cast
The presets for color casts apply a light tone to the image. The tones are designed to impose a slight cast to grayscale images or remove a slight cast by applying a neutral gray tone. You can choose from Gray Green, Gray Mauve, Cooler Gray, Neutral Gray, or Warmer Gray.
Traditional Tones
The presets for the traditional tones apply a moderate tone to the image. The tones are designed to simulate traditional toning processes from a chemical darkroom. The available tones include Cyanotype, Gold, Palladium, Platinum, Platinum Palladium, Selenium, Selenium, Selenium Brown, and Silver Gelatin.
Multi-Tones
The presets for the traditional tones apply a moderate tone to the image. Instead of applying a single tone, a combination of tones are applied to the image. The multi-tone actions include Aqua Gold and Burgundy Gold.
You can then adjust the settings to your liking, something impossible to do with a traditional filter and film photography.
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problems loading
Hi Mitch,
First of all I'd like to thank you for all of the tools you have provided to photographers over the many years. Just want you to know they are greatly appreciated by those like me who don't have the time, knowledge to set up these actions.
I've been able to successfully load the landscape and portrait sharpening (actions. However I am having trouble with these presets.
I work in Vista 64 and CS4. I unzip the download with 7-Zip. When I attempt to load the file through the drop down menu in ACR, it automatically calls up the folder in to which the .xmp files were unzipped. This is good. Somehow it knows where they are. I don't have to browse/search for the .xmp files. But I cannot select them within that window. When I click on one of the presets, ACR makes the adjustment on the current RAW file based on that preset but nowhere is anything saved in ACR for me to use on future files. When I try to load the whole file folder it performs the blue adjustment (the first one in the folder) but nowhere does it save the .xmp files. I have downloaded the camera defaults from the Adobe labs site. Is that where I'd see these Split Tone presets saved? Maybe they ARE saved and i don't know where to look. I had no problem downloading the .ATN sharpening files in to CS4 but can't figure out how with these presets. Is it because I am in 64 bit? CS4? incompetence? or I just don't know where to look? Is there a folder in CS4 I can manually copy and paste the .xmp presets to?
Thanks for all your help and tools. I really admire what you are doing for photography (as well as your attempts to point out the inner workings of the digiterati/digital gurus).
Re. problems loading
To load an individual preset, you go to the Presets panel in ACR. There you select the flyout menu and choose "Load settiongs..."
With Vista, you can save the entire set of ACR presets into this folder:
C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings
Just substitute your user name for the computer you're using.
The next time you open ACR, you should see the entire set of presets available.
The Help file for Adobe Photoshop has helpful information:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSA743BAAF-3A14-4ecf-8F7E-E2F...
Re. problems loading, continued
I'll try to work up a video tomorrow that demonstrates how to load ACR presets. :)
Cheers,
Mitch
really enjoying these!!
I especially am enjoying the Traditional Tones collection. They are so different in many ways. They are a time saver and an integral part of my workflow - they/you/the site ROCKS!!